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<article lang="&language;" id="finger">
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<title>finger</title>
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<articleinfo>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>&Lauri.Watts;&Lauri.Watts.mail;</author>
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<!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS -->
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</authorgroup>
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</articleinfo>
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<para>Finger is a program to display information about users.</para>
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<para>If finger is enabled on the remote machine, you may be given
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information on the user's real name, if they are currently logged in, if
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they have mail and the text of their <filename>.plan</filename> file in
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their home folder.</para>
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<para>Finger is normally associated with a user@hostname address, which
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may or may not be the same as a users email address.</para>
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<para>Most Internet Service Providers no longer allow finger access, so,
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you may find that you get no useful answer for most people.</para>
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<para>Other people use their local <filename>.plan</filename> file to
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hold such information as <acronym>PGP</acronym> keys, the fact they are
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on vacation, and all sorts of information.</para>
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<para>Use the finger kioslave like this:
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<userinput>finger://<replaceable>username</replaceable>@<replaceable>hostname</replaceable></userinput></para>
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<para> See the manual: <ulink url="man:/finger">finger</ulink>.
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</para>
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</article>
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